At 7/19/2010 4:11:41 PM, Ragnar_Rahl wrote:Apparently, last year, a dude working on a train called into the control room of Egypt State Railways when the train stalled.

He was told to call back after prayer. 18 people died.

Source: The Economist.

Not news now, but I thought it was funny :P

Hey, that is funny.

"Let me tell you the truth. The truth is, 'what is'. And 'what should be' is a fantasy, a terrible terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago. The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is." - Lenny Bruce

"Satan goes to church, did you know that?" - Godsands

"And Genisis 1 does match modern science... you just have to try really hard." - GR33K FR33K5

And it came to pass that Allah revealed to the Prophet: have not a sense of humor, for it is of the idolaters. They laugh and make merry, those sons of pigs and monkeys, but theirs is a painful doom!!

PS - 10pts for anyone that finds the Mormon joke!

"And it came to pass" was one of Joseph Smiths favorite phrases. He also seemed to be particularly fond of the word "exceedingly." He tried way too hard to make the Book of Mormon sound like the King James Bible. So whenever it began to sound too modern, he just added, "and it came to pass" in order to make it seem more authentic.

Chancellor of Propaganda and Foreign Relations in the Franklin administration.

And it came to pass that Allah revealed to the Prophet: have not a sense of humor, for it is of the idolaters. They laugh and make merry, those sons of pigs and monkeys, but theirs is a painful doom!!

PS - 10pts for anyone that finds the Mormon joke!

"And it came to pass" was one of Joseph Smiths favorite phrases. He also seemed to be particularly fond of the word "exceedingly." He tried way too hard to make the Book of Mormon sound like the King James Bible. So whenever it began to sound too modern, he just added, "and it came to pass" in order to make it seem more authentic.

"And it came to pass" was one of Joseph Smiths favorite phrases. He also seemed to be particularly fond of the word "exceedingly." He tried way too hard to make the Book of Mormon sound like the King James Bible. So whenever it began to sound too modern, he just added, "and it came to pass" in order to make it seem more authentic.

You get the 10pts! Yes - when Joseph Smith made up the Book of Mormon, he used "and it came to pass" exceedingly =P

I think the only other phrase it is exceeded (heh) by might be the occurrences of doom, painful doom, shameful doom, wrathful doom, etc... in the Quran...

"And it came to pass" was one of Joseph Smiths favorite phrases. He also seemed to be particularly fond of the word "exceedingly." He tried way too hard to make the Book of Mormon sound like the King James Bible. So whenever it began to sound too modern, he just added, "and it came to pass" in order to make it seem more authentic.

You get the 10pts! Yes - when Joseph Smith made up the Book of Mormon, he used "and it came to pass" exceedingly =P

I think the only other phrase it is exceeded (heh) by might be the occurrences of doom, painful doom, shameful doom, wrathful doom, etc... in the Quran...

"And it came to pass" was one of Joseph Smiths favorite phrases. He also seemed to be particularly fond of the word "exceedingly." He tried way too hard to make the Book of Mormon sound like the King James Bible. So whenever it began to sound too modern, he just added, "and it came to pass" in order to make it seem more authentic.

You get the 10pts! Yes - when Joseph Smith made up the Book of Mormon, he used "and it came to pass" exceedingly =P

I think the only other phrase it is exceeded (heh) by might be the occurrences of doom, painful doom, shameful doom, wrathful doom, etc... in the Quran...

to be fair, the Qur'an does reference "painful doom", etc. alot. :/

And it came to pass that those that exceedingly made fun of the Book of Mormon suffered a painful doom, the like of which no man nor beast could yet comprehend.

Without Royal there is a hole inside of me, I have no choice but to leave

And the heavens parted, and an angel descended from the firmament unto the Earth. His tongue spake a great many things, and filled the peoples of the land with the spirit of the LORD. And the peoples of the land rejoiced in the glory, and the mercy of the LORD.

And a man rose up unto the angel from the masses, and he said to the angel, art thou a messenger of the LORD? I am a nonbeliever, and my people suffer. And the angel said, I am a messenger of the LORD, who has come to fill the peoples of the land with His spirit. And the angel filled the man, who was called Cody, with the spirit of the LORD, and made him repent of his wickedness, and gave unto him the power of miracles to bless his people.

Cody became unto his people a prophet of the LORD, and an apostle to Him. And he too spake from his tongue great things about the LORD, of his power, and his righteousness, and his mercy. And a blind man approached the prophet Cody, and asked of him what it was to be filled with the spirit of the LORD, for he also wished to take the spirit into his body.

And Cody took the blind man up into the balcony before his people and healed the blind man's sickness. The man looked with his eyes up into the prophet Cody's face and asked unto him a second time what it was to be filled with the spirit of the LORD.

And the prophet Cody confessed unto the man, and unto all the peoples of the land, I am a false prophet. Yea, I am he who hath pulled a fast one on our LORD so that I might have some bitchin powers; For lo, though the power and the glory be His, the cunning and the lulz be mine.